Hand-press for raw meat.



UNITED STATES PATENT 0111 1101 3.

'AUGUS'IB YETIT AND GABRIEL DE BERCHOUX. F LYON. FRANCE.-

HAND-PRESS FOR RAW MEAT.

timlficaliondhtteri t l'ateuted Sept. 14. man.

Application tiled April l5. I909. Serial No. 490.129.

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lie it known that we. .\tl;t'.-"tt1 liz'rt'r and tiamniznm: llizuenga x.eiti/.ens ot' l"ranee.l'esiding at Lyon. Frauee. have invented new and uset'nl lmproretm-nts in or llelatin; to lltllld-l'l'esses for Raw Heat. of whieh the followin" is a speeitieation.

"l'his invention eonsists in llll|)ttl\'t'tllt'lll.- ,in or l'elatil g'to haml presse for raw meat. lluml u'e'sses intended for pressing raw meat to oiitaill the jttiee or the meat intended prinei mll .for feeding iuvalids. eonvaleseent iersous. ete.. are usually formed of a evlinder elosed at one end in whieh eylint er is a piston. the tneat to be pressed being inserted in the eylinder and pressed by the piston whieh is moved bv hand by means of 1 a rpropriate detiees. The result 'l\'ell by t on kind of press is poor. as the bottom of the cylinder and the piston have smoothsurfaees whieh are in eoutaet with the meat. the fibers of the latter slide on these surfaees under the pressure. and emtseqnently the juiee eontained in the meat eannot be eompletely pressed out.

The production of juiee would be eonsiderably increased if the fibers of the meat were pressed and held between rough surfaces for instant-e between gratings or inetallic wires However. the employment of sueh gratiu's gives rise to serious iueourenienees. n the ease where they eonsist of disks or rel-tangles out from a tnetallie trellis. the sharp edges formed by the rut threads might cause ini n-v to the person using them. (in the Min I hand if the edge of these disks or reetangles is bordered by a riln formed by a pieee of bent metal. the ineouvenienee mentioned above would be overv come, but it would almost be impossible to unite the rnn to the disk without rarities or interstices remaining between the wires of Q the grating and the ritu sutlieiently large to retain partieles of meat or substance whieh eonld not be eompletely removed even by very earefnl eleaniug. Hut-h partieles would irodnee in time fermentations \\llltll would ie unpleasant and even dangerous to the pet'- )ntee or snbstanee ot' the tons ennsntnin" the neat prodtteetrhy sneh a press.

ial shape and eonstruetion.

'I'he annexed draw ng shows as an examle a grating ot' en'enlar form.

l'he present lIHt'IttlUll is for the purpose 5 Figure l i a hoot View. Fig. 2. shows a port ion on a larger settle. and Fig. 3 is a seetiolron the line of Fig. .8.

- "l'he grating is formed by a nietallie disk n of whi h the great r part of the snrfaee is wrt'orated with a number of square holes armoured regularlv and of whieh the wholel'orm for e ample a polygon. "lhe parts between the square holes t'nrtn hands erossiug at right angles with hand llil. lly

means of sttitable tool the parts of the bands betweentwo eonseeutiye squares are bowed alternately in opposite direetions so as to form projeetions on both sides of the plate. 'Fig. .3 illustrates by the shadin' the undulations of the hands vand (l and l' ig'. 2i elearly shows in seeti'on the nndnlatiou of one of these bands. The rim of the disk 1; is a tlat eoutimtous surfaee. t

v 'l'he method of using-the disks .l-i=tl-' l'ollows: In the eylinder of an ordinituv hand ll't's's' separated from it piston firstly a disk is in erted \vhieh-re ts on the bottom of said e\'linder.'a layer of the meat to be pre ed ithen put in and 'eorered by a seeond disk. layers of meat heitig: added as desired eneh separated by a disk. the last layer is also eo\'-- eted with a dish tilt \tliielt the piston rests. .\t the time of pressing the libers of the meal are retained by the parts in relief of the 1 bands e and 1/ and eannot slide against the i n'rlaees ol' the disks. it follows that the pressure being uniformly divided pel'tttt'tltes l the wltole ma ol' the meat. tlte juiee or snl istttln'e til the latter i t'ttttt'ely pre sed out. tt traver es the holes in the disk and tlows out through the ehannel provided in the press.

1 When a small quantity of food is to be pres ed forming only a single layer perfol l rated disks ean be employed of whteh the undulations of the bands e and are all similar in order to form projeetions only on one ide of the disk. in this ease eare tuust be taken that the ide of the disks do not earry any l projeetion in eontaet with the. piston or the bottom of the eylindei'. the projeetions bein always in eontaet with the food tobe pre set Similar di ks run also be employed when the meat is divided into several layer being utilized for the tirst and the la t layer The bands 4' and J eau be nndnlated in any other manner than that tl -'t'llllt'tlttll'-lltlll|ltti or embos ed to form tn'niei'titilts of any ltind able to nllieientlt' hold the tihers ol'the meat o as to obtain the maaitunm protlnetion'ot' jniee or snlt-tunee.\\'hile peeve-tiling by the no C 

